COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRYDERYK CHOPIN’S AND JOHN FIELD’S NOCTURNES

Authors

  • Tímea SZILVESZTER Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Reformed Theology, Musical Pedagogy Department, RO-400174 Cluj-Napoca, Horea str. 7. E-mail: szilveszter.timea@yahoo.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0967-711X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2019.1.22

Keywords:

John Field, Fryderyk Chopin, nocturne, formal structure, tonality, ornaments, comparative analysis.

Abstract

Music History holds John Field as the creator of the nocturne genre. The purpose of this work is to reveal the formal, tonal and stylistic features that prove the influence of the Irish composer on Fryderyk Chopin's compositions of the same genre.

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2019-06-20

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SZILVESZTER, T. (2019). COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRYDERYK CHOPIN’S AND JOHN FIELD’S NOCTURNES. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Musica, 64(1), 331–364. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2019.1.22

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